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...downstairs Safari Room, where players shoot pool amid zebra skins, mounted sailfish and a stuffed bobcat. In Boston, Jillian's Billiard Club has a private room, furnished as an English gentleman's library, that rents for $30 an hour. "It's becoming a glamour sport," observes Ed Irwin, a banker by day and a player by night...
Pool places only a modest burden on the wallet at a time when dinner and an evening out for two can inflict triple-digit damage. "It's cheap entertainment," says New York banker Stephen Eisenstein. "You can come by and meet a friend and chat -- or not -- as you choose." Nor is the sport as physically demanding as the swingles scene. Says real estate investor Miles Levine: "Sex and drugs are out. We're going back to a more conservative time...
...want to part with the home. Although she divorced Elvis in 1973, Priscilla is the mother of his only child and heir, Lisa Marie, 20, and remains an executor of his estate. She gave the go-ahead to turn Graceland into an Elvis museum in 1982. Soden, a former banker, picked up ideas from Monticello and San Simeon, the California mansion of William Randolph Hearst. Smithsonian Institution curators helped Soden and his staff plan the displays...
...offer. The intense Kravis agreed, submitting a document offering some $25 billion for the company, but warned, "If we don't get it back in 30 minutes, we are going away." Thirty- four minutes later, at about 8 p.m., board representatives ushered Kravis into a conference room where investment banker Felix Rohatyn, a board adviser, handed him the signed merger agreement...
...fated to die for another 60 years. Before the snafu comes to light, however, his body has all too promptly been cremated. The heavenly officials are left no other choice but to offer Joe the option of taking someone else's body, and he chooses that of a millionaire banker whose wife and her lover have just drowned the genuine item in a bathtub...